> once, when I ran unpatched 2.0.30 I was preparing boot/root disks; I was
> using a loop device. When I wrote onto the floppy, the kernel complained
> it wasn't able to allocate enough DMA memory. The kernel just wouldn't
> let me write to /dev/fd0. I rebooted and things worked fine; I wasn't able
> to replicate the problem.
Known mm weakness, hard to solve. Try to run big app and then kill
it. It *may* help.
Pavel
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